Motivational Quotes

Life

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Life

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

14.

Making a life comes before making a living.

15.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

21.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

22.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

28.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

31.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra